Best Villain Protagonist Games on Steam
Games where you play a villain, antihero, monster, criminal, or destructive force.
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1Skul: The Hero Slayer - Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.
Jan 20, 2021
In this game, you can…
- rip off your head mid-run, put on a new skull, and instantly fight with a completely different moveset.
- find a skull that lets you ride a motorbike through rooms while whipping enemies with a burning chain.
- upgrade a skull you found as a common drop until it evolves into a top-tier, endgame-ready form.
- carry two skulls at once and swap between them in combat to cover different ranges, speeds, and damage types.
- stack up to nine items, hit set bonuses, and turn ordinary gear into a build with constant crits or huge health.
- fight the same elite heroes in escalating ambushes: first one, then two, then three at once, and the healer can reset the whole team.
- come back to your castle hub after dying, buy permanent upgrades, unlock helpers, and start the next run stronger.
- push into a postgame mode where each new cycle makes enemies faster, bosses gain new attacks, and the whole game hits harder.
2Untitled Goose Game - It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.
Sep 23, 2020
In this game, you can…
- lock a shopkeeper in a garage, then calmly loot and rearrange the shop while he pounds on the door.
- steal a kid's glasses, trick him into wearing a different pair you stole, and watch him accept the swap.
- sneak into a pub while hidden inside a box, then pop out to cause a full-on commotion.
- steal an entire picnic's worth of food and plates, then set the whole spread for yourself before anyone gets it back.
- dump the gardener's tools into a pond, including the rake, even when it makes absolutely no practical sense.
- make a groundskeeper put up a "no geese allowed" sign, steal it, then force him to redo it and hit his thumb.
- play two-goose co-op where you coordinate pranks using only waddling, honking, flapping, and silent synchronization.
- outrun angry villagers while clutching whatever you just stole, as the music switches into frantic chase mode.
3Aliens vs. Predator™ - Survive, hunt and prey in the deadly jungles and swamps in distinctly new and thrilling first person gameplay.
Feb 16, 2010
In this game, you can…
- crawl seamlessly across floors, walls, and ceilings, slip through vents, and pounce out of the dark to shred a whole room before anyone turns around.
- hunt Marines from the treetops while cloaked, tag them in heat vision, mimic human cries to split them up, then drop in with a huge leap for a trophy execution.
- play a mode where one random player becomes the Alien, and anyone who dies respawns on the Alien team as the infestation spreads.
- replay the same events through three campaigns, then realize that "mystery blip" on your motion tracker was you in another species' story.
- join 2v2v2 matches where Marines, Aliens, and Predators all fight at once, so every encounter turns into a three-way ambush.
4CARRION - CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Jul 23, 2020
In this game, you can…
- possess a human and walk around in their body to get close to unsuspecting people.
- crawl through vents, then drop into a room or yank someone up into the vents to eat them.
- split yourself into smaller creatures with different powers to solve traversal and access puzzles.
- start as a tiny blob, feed carefully, and grow into a facility-clearing mass of tentacles.
- climb ceilings, rip out grates, slip through hidden passages, then burst into a firefight and wipe the room.
- turn invisible, then hit enemies from a distance with web-like or electric attacks.
- use size-dependent forms to solve puzzles, where some powers only work in certain bodies and rooms force you to choose.
- revisit earlier areas with new powers to open sealed doors, reach blocked paths, and collect hidden upgrades.
5Dungeons 3 - At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!
Oct 13, 2017
In this game, you can…
- run a two-layer war by building an underground dungeon, then sending your army to conquer the surface above it.
- throw defeated heroes into a prison or graveyard and convert them into zombies and skeletal archers for your own defenses.
- pick up your own units and literally throw them where you need them, while you lock doors, reshape tunnels, and redirect whole armies between maps.
- design long twisting corridors to your Dungeon Heart, then pack them with boulders, blades, barriers, and tentacles.
- mine gold with your workers, crank out food, beer, toolboxes, and evil points, then turn it all into rooms, traps, spells, and troops.
- lock a diamond room so workers grind infinite income, then delete nearby gold rooms so the spending pulls from diamonds first.
- keep three different factions running at once, with demons that generate mana and self-resurrect and undead that can't heal but revive after death.
- play missions that flip the rules, including no-base scenarios and even levels where you control the heroes instead of the evil side.
6Party Hard - It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
Aug 25, 2015
In this game, you can…
- trigger wild random events mid-party, like a bear wiping out the crowd, zombies invading, Sharknadoes, or aliens attacking a casino.
- change clothes right in front of a cop, then immediately get ignored and blend back into the crowd by dancing.
- set up a single environmental hazard—like a booby-trapped dance floor or toppled wardrobe—to wipe out a packed room in one go.
- quietly wipe out an entire house party as the exhausted neighbor who just wants sleep.
- sneak through a packed dance floor and turn the venue into a murder puzzle with poison punch, gas stoves, ovens, fuse boxes, and fire.
- hide bodies in dumpsters, freezers, sewers, haystacks, and other containers before anyone spots them and calls the police.
- play as radically different characters, like a ninja who must never be seen, a cop who can carry bodies and frame innocents, or a butcher with a chainsaw.
- kill in specific ways like pushing someone into a BBQ, dropping a chandelier, rolling a car through a crowd, or dumping someone into a pool to drown.
7Luck be a Landlord - Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.
Jan 6, 2023
In this game, you can…
- find a loop that goes infinite in a few rounds and keep the run going to round 75 with no end in sight.
- build a Geologist setup that consumes every rock and gem on the board in one sweep, then pays out a massive hit.
- watch a chicken lay an egg that can hatch into another chicken, letting your board start self-replicating.
- start with one coin, buy a slot machine, and keep spinning to pay a landlord who demands more rent every time you survive.
- spin a 5x5 grid, then pick 1 of 3 symbols to permanently add for future spins.
- set a dwarf next to a drink so it consumes it and triggers a big cash payout.
- stack items that turn cats into combo pieces, like making cats pay extra or act as wildcards that boost neighbors.
- turn an urn from dead weight into value by getting an item that makes it break open into spirits.
8Destroy All Humans! - The cult-classic returns! Terrorize the people of 1950's Earth in the role of the evil alien Crypto-137. Harvest their DNA and bring down the US government in the faithful remake of the legendary alien invasion action adventure. Annihilate puny humans using an assortment of alien weaponry and psychic abilities.
Jul 28, 2020
In this game, you can…
- extract brains from a crowd, turn some into temporary allies, then make their heads explode.
- disguise yourself as the town mayor, stroll into guarded areas, and mind-control people to win over voters.
- make cows dance, abduct them, and fling cows and humans across the map with telekinesis.
- chain a dash, flight, psychic grabs, gunfire, and tank-throwing without stopping.
- use every alien power whenever you want, with no energy meter holding you back.
- read random civilians' thoughts as you wander around town.
- swoop over a town in a flying saucer and level whole city blocks with death rays and giant lasers.
- heal your flying saucer by siphoning health from humans and vehicles.
9LEGO® City Undercover - Join the Chase! In LEGO® CITY Undercover, play as Chase McCain, a police officer who's been tasked with going undercover to hunt down the notorious – and recently escaped – criminal Rex Fury and putting an end to his city-wide crime wave.
Apr 4, 2017
In this game, you can…
- crack safes with a stethoscope, blow up rocks with dynamite, and use cop-only routes other disguises can't reach.
- smash street clutter for bricks, then turn the debris into superbuilds like stunt ramps, barricades, and vehicle spawns.
- fly a helicopter, jetpack around as a spaceman, or glide using a chicken across the open world.
- go undercover across the city, unlocking new disguises that change what you can do and where you can go.
- climb to rooftops by plotting parkour routes, then chain glides from building to building to reach new areas.
- steal a car, apologize for it, then get pulled into a clown crime scene with circus music.
- play split-screen co-op where one of you drives while the other runs around completing objectives.
10Grimm - The true meaning of the word fear... Once upon a time, fairy tales were valuable cautionary yarns filled with dire warnings and sage advice. However, over time, the stories have become so watered down with cute woodland creatures and happy endings that they have lost their true meaning and purpose. No more!
Jan 6, 2014
In this game, you can…
- start with a sweet puppet-theatre fairy tale, corrupt it scene by scene, then watch the final retelling reflect every change you made.
- butt-slam the ground to corrupt a huge area, stun cleaners, and trigger the next beat of the episode.
- turn cute fairy-tale spaces into grotesque wastelands where fountains ooze blood and playground swings become hanging corpses.
- grow a corruption aura from staining small props to warping trees, buildings, and even people as you move through a level.
- pick up power-ups like flaming pee and sausage stomp, then use them to spread themed corruption faster.
- watch flowers wilt, homes twist into dark parodies, and entire scenes shift into themes like gold, slime, or blood.
- race through 5–6 stages per episode, stomping key spots to advance while trying to darken everything and grab secrets.
- trail corruption that reshapes the world in real time, like fences turning into barbed wire and villagers becoming wailing husks.
